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The Court believed that the plaintiffs cannot be obliged to pay for
the value of the portion of the defendants house which has
encroached an area of five (5) sq. meters of the land allotted to
them. The defendants cannot also be obliged to pay for the price of
the said five
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he shall pay reasonable rent, if the owner of the land does not
choose to appropriate the building or trees after proper indemnity.
The parties shall agree upon the terms of the lease and in case of
disagreement, the court shall fix the terms thereof.
The court a quo correctly held that Article 448 of the Civil
Code cannot apply where a coowner builds, plants or sows
on the land owned in common for then he did not build,
plant or sow upon land that exclusively belongs to another
but of which he is a coowner. The coowner is not a third
person under the circumstances, and
the situation is
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governed by the rules of coownership.
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3 Planiol & Ripert 245; page 108, Civil Code by Tolentino, Vol, II; See
also Viuda de Arias vs. Aguilar, (CA.) O.G. Supp., Aug. 30, 1941, Page
126, 40 O.G. 15th series, Page 126.
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